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New comment by moultano in "Our Experience with I-Ready"

moultano — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:06:24 +0000

i-Ready has two products, i-Ready diagnostic and i-Ready learning. The diagnostic is solely used for adaptive testing. The learning software is used for classwork, homework, and lessons. The learning software is what this is about. Lots of schools just use the diagnostic tests.

When you chose a school you didn't realize you were choosing software

moultano — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:21:49 +0000

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/our-experience-with-i-ready/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366459

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by moultano in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

moultano — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:47:19 +0000

Thank you! Two of my favorites. I'm honored.

New comment by moultano in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

moultano — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:57:55 +0000

Wow! Great suggestion. Whether to count coconut milk as milk is a decision I had not yet had to make.

My thinking at the moment is that I probably would not. It seems like further research would reveal a whole new region in the upper left, clustering with Dan Bing, of "asian milkless crepes."

New comment by moultano in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

moultano — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:58:47 +0000

Aggakake is on the chart!

New comment by moultano in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

moultano — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:06:07 +0000

It's easy, if you normalize it so that it sums to one, it drops a dimension, and becomes an equilateral triangle.

New comment by moultano in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

moultano — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:20:06 +0000

French toast isn't plotted because the recipe doesn't customarily start with flour, but if you do plot it it ends up in the lower middle. If you have exceptionally eggy challah, then you might be able to push it into the abyss, but really exceptionally eggy, like 1:1 egg to flour by weight.

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

moultano — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:49:48 +0000

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176257

Points: 554

# Comments: 184

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Deriving breakfasts we have never observed

moultano — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:52:27 +0000

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166096

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Plotting breakfasts by their ratios of Milk, Flour, and Eggs reveals a hole

moultano — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:54:01 +0000

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159218

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

The Manifold of Breakfast Has Gaps

moultano — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:31:52 +0000

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47150173

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed?

moultano — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:20:27 +0000

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146063

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Missing breakfasts on the breakfast manifold

moultano — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:23:37 +0000

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136228

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed?

moultano — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:36:09 +0000

Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130653

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by moultano in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

moultano — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:20:18 +0000

A related idea that I'd like to see more people do. If you have 10-20 tweets on a subject, plug the holes and turn them into an essay on the real internet. My first step in writing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452763 was to copy a bunch of tweets into a doc.

Micro blogging is a great way to brainstorm and iterate on your thoughts over time, but eventually you have enough material to graduate from micro blogging to blogging, and more people should do it.

New comment by moultano in "Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)"

moultano — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:00:33 +0000

I think most great parents didn't feel ready, and in some sense not feeling ready is evidence of the kind of conscientiousness that makes you a great parent. I think it is a valuable service to push people who want kids but aren't sure when to have them to have them earlier than they otherwise would. You never know how difficult it will be for you until you start trying.

New comment by moultano in "Children and Helical Time"

moultano — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:51:14 +0000

> This is where my reaction was: "Dude, wat??" If adult experiences make you resentful, something is really off. If a good experience makes you wish you could go back to being a child, I'd be recommending therapy because that is not the reaction most adults have to new experiences. I don't say that to be mean, either - if your childhood memories are that much stronger than adult ones, that is not the typical human experience, and I would sincerely be asking for medical and psych support to figure out if something is wrong.

I'm describing my impression of other people's experience there, not mine, (note the word "exclusively") the sort of downside I see of living an inward life of hedonism.

New comment by moultano in "Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)"

moultano — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:43:14 +0000

This essay was in part an inspiration for my (much more upbeat) essay which was on here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452763, and I linked it at the end, but I thought it deserved a submission on its own.

Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)

moultano — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:39:13 +0000

Article URL: https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/your-real-biological-clock-is-youre-going-to-die/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461778

Points: 88

# Comments: 75

New comment by moultano in "Children and Helical Time"

moultano — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:08:30 +0000

The graph is just to clearly convey the idea, not to give it any more connotation of rigor than the idea itself has. The idea has a long enough history and enough research behind it to be in psychology textbooks and be referenced on Wikipedia, but it seems to resonate for some people and not others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#:~:text=Propor...